Ubisoft and Nadeo announced that ShootMania Storm, the online multiplayer first-person shooter, will be released on April 10th, 2013 and that on February 12th, the game will enter an Open Beta.
“Nadeo’s model of development has always been to be very close to the community, said Anne Bondel-Jouin, Managing Director of Nadeo Live , and following the release of the Beta 2 in December, we received a tremendous amount of information from the very active ShootMania community. For a living, online multiplayer title like this the work is never done, but these extra few weeks will allow us to polish the game further and release it to the level of quality we think our players deserve.”
Developed by Ubisoft’s Nadeo studio, ShootMania Storm is based on TrackMania, Nadeo’s successful arcade racing game. As part of the ManiaPlanet system, ShootMania Storm gamers can create game modes and maps from Shootmania Storm’s extensive toolkit. Ubisoft confirmed that to date more than 15 game modes and, already, more than 20,000 maps have been created by players using ManiaPlanet’s proprietary map editor.
ShootMania Storm’s pre-order offer is still available through to April 10th at http://www.ShootMania.com.